Archive for August, 2005

The Andy Face

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005

See the funny theandyface pictures at the barcamp…
Also read the wired article about barcamp and the posts on technorati if you wanna know what happened.
via actioncontents.com (this is really honorably )
Update: Hehe, have a look at the flickrTagFight.

The Sea

Monday, August 22nd, 2005

Here is a new Final Fantasy song. It was originally written for his album ‘has a good home’, but kicked. This new version is coming out on a 7” in canada.

BlessMS

Saturday, August 20th, 2005

If you can’t attend the final mass of the World Youth Day here in Cologne there is a SMS service. Read the full story here (Author is Ranty Islam ). When is there a pope blog spreading the word? I can’t wait to syndicate.
You can’t believe what’s happening here. The city is full of [...]

T-Hallelujah

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

Let’s get some catholic ringing tones, great! That’s definitly better than crazy frog. Maybe make some guerilla marketing for amish people.

RSS Overhead

Monday, August 15th, 2005

Speaking of RSS as a pull service. Kevin Burton did a little math on RSS network overhead. Also read Bob Wymans (PubSub) post about feed instance-manipulation.
via slashdot (thx to david)

Day of the podcast

Monday, August 15th, 2005

Der erste deutsche Podcast-Thementag
On August, 29 will be the first podcasting day about the upcoming election in germany. Lots of podcasters are preparing to talk about current politics. It’s all organized by the German Podcast Federation. Here is a list of the members.
It’s nice to have podcasts as a pull service, so you can [...]

Cake PHP

Saturday, August 13th, 2005

CakePHP is a rapid web development framework similar to Ruby on Rails.
“The Cake is a lightweight framework written in PHP, based on the concepts used in Rails. It’s primary goal is to rapidly create and maintain web applications of any kind and level of complexity.”
There is also a tutorial how to build a blogging application [...]

last.fm

Thursday, August 11th, 2005

I just saw waldar’s post about the audioscrobbler relaunch. They switched over to last.fm, consequently moving to a web2.0 application, this includes tagging, ajax and a typical design2.0.
What does last.fm?

There are plugins for your media player to send information about the music you are listening to last.fm
They create a music profile of you and suggest [...]

Live Landing

Tuesday, August 9th, 2005

I’m watching a live video of the Discovery landing via Yahoo! News. Looks good.
Update: Successful. Congratulations!

Gnome 2.12

Monday, August 8th, 2005

is coming on September 7th. Read Davyd Madeley’s A Prerelease Tour of GNOME 2.12 and Citizen428’s blog entry.
It’s great to have a nice MP3 Tagger for Gnome. There was only Cantus before, but no integration of Amazon and even better MusicBrainz.
There are two more new mono application I’m using:

Desktop search: Beagle
Desktop wiki: Tomboy [...]